A Daily Express Leader-writer Has Been Expressing Himself...
on something he does not begin to understand. Trying to find a stick to beat the United Nations with, he resurrects the now half-forgotten story of the bombardment of the Greek......
What The Difference Is Between An Epigram And A Wise-crack
I should not care to determine, or in which of the two, if there be any difference, Governor Adlai Stevenson so largely abounds. Of the selection I have seen on the whole I like......
Gremlins Played Some Havoc With This Column Last Week, And
a little of the damage must be here repaired. By noting that P. B. H. May has now displaced his captain, David Sheppard, at the head of the batting averages I hope to divert......
There Was A Passage In A Message From A Vienna
corres- pondent in the Observer last Sunday which seems to deserve some attention. Giving news of a meeting of the Cominform recently held in Prague to consider future policy,'......
Clean-up
IN EGYPT G ENERAL NEGUIB, according to a British resident in Cairo, is " a good man, a good man in every way." All the evidence confirms that estimate. The revolu- tionary......
A Spectator 's Notebook R. Asquith, The Centenary Of Whose
birth falls on the date this issue of the Spectator bears, was, for all his long tenure of the Premiership, little known to the nation as a man. He was essentially the......
I Am All For Enriching The English Language With New
terms, and I know that Harold Nicolson, in spite of the brilliant success of his " George V," will never die happy till he has seen " doryphore " (what it means, and why,......
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